I also heard that for some reason, Fast User Switching causes problems
with the Hp software. . .true?
Not in my (limited) experience.
G4/500 1GB RAM 10.3.7 using an HP 5850 Deskjet.
Bought the HP *specifically* because my Epson wasn't playing nice with
Jag. I have 4 users printing without
Yesterday I tried to watch the MacWorld keynote address on my 1.5 GHz
PowerBook with 2 GB RAM. It seems that I have the hardware for it
anyway. We have DSL. It interrupted and quit so many times in the
first 20 minutes that I watched it on my son's 2-year old PC instead
(with XP Professional),
Is the Wallstreet S-Video hot swabable?
Unless you mean smearing it with warm liquids ;-) yes, S-video is
hot-swappable.
I'm not sure it'll display properly (haven't done it in a while), but
you can plug it in and out while the computer is on without causing
damage.
--
Nevertheless, as far as I
Hi David,
I am in Norway... I just got my new iBook, which has an international
keyboard. I am now getting a new one, a Norwegian one. So what I need
to do, is to change the keyboard definition in the system, then pop
on the new keyboard. And I will be all set, with a new iBook that
really
Hi Clark,
He was thinking of painting the dented/scratched Titanium Power Book,
right (called it Al(uminum)Book)? The iBook was perfect while the PB
wasn't?
Aase :)
One consideration, AFAIK the current iBook is a clear plastic case
with white paint on the inside. If you disassembled the case
On 1/15/05 8:36 AM, Larry le Mac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am pondering my next *Book purchase and the way I see it
I have two choices (need vs. budget and all...)
First, I would not purchase any laptop that was previously damaged in an
accident regardless of documentation that some repair
The two camps seem to be:
1) It is supported.
2) It's destructive.
Allow me to offer a third possibility from my personal varying mileage.
3) It doesn't work.
Whenever I'd plug or unplug my Kensington trackball all ADB
communication would cease or at best the trackball behaved as if it
was only
I'm rearranging furniture and realize that wireless printing would be
desirable. I have a desktop G4 (Yikes) and a Powerbook (G3 Lombard). The
printer is an Epson SP960. There's a Linksys ethernet wireless router. I'm
running 9.2.2 on the PB and 10.3 on the desktop.
Can it be done? thanks for
Two words: Airport Express
Tim
Exterminate all rational thought.
w miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
__
I'm rearranging furniture and realize that wireless printing would be
desirable. I have a desktop G4 (Yikes) and a Powerbook (G3 Lombard). The
printer is an Epson SP960. There's a
Hi,
I am still very new to OS X, I have just tried it a bit, but can't
wait to really try out it's stability!!! I see that Tiger has been
mentioned, and some obviously wait buying a new 'Book in order to get
Tiger into the deal. Do you know what will be the difference to the
current OS
On 1/17/05 7:51 AM, Aase Marit Waage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I am still very new to OS X, I have just tried it a bit, but can't
wait to really try out it's stability!!! I see that Tiger has been
mentioned, and some obviously wait buying a new 'Book in order to get
Tiger into the deal.
What's the problem with multiple accounts? I'm using 8 at the moment (5
IMAP, 2 POP, and 1 Exchange) without any issues at all.
Cheers,
Ben
On 18 Jan 2005, at 00:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Apple's Email is a real workhorse with a few caveats: It doesn't play
nice
with multiple email accounts
I thought Airport Express allowed printing in 10.3 only.
John
Two words: Airport Express
Tim
Exterminate all rational thought.
w miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
__
I'm rearranging furniture and realize that wireless printing would be
desirable. I have a desktop G4 (Yikes)
Hi David,
WOW... Thanks a lot for your input! This is really great, very useful
for me... You even mentioned several programs I never even heard
of... Now I have something to look into, helps a lot!!! I will take a
look at these, and also at the Apple mail reader. Maybe I can use it.
I would
The Password field in the accounts preferences pane *always* displays
the same number of dots, regardless of password length or whether
there's one there or not. It's an added security measure.
You can't really change the account to your name, at least not fully --
short user names cannot be
Shawn Harley wrote:
snip
Somewhere in the install/upgrade process (9.0 to 9.1 to 9.2.1), the
upgrade CD (9.2.1, IIRC) would not install fully.
I had to download or copy the CD contents (don't
remember) to the hard drive, restart with extensions off, and run the
upgrade from the hard drive.
Hi Ben,
The Password field in the accounts preferences pane *always*
displays the same number of dots, regardless of password length or
whether there's one there or not. It's an added security measure.
Oooh... :) I just assumed it had to mean that some password had been
entered, like it usually
I am hoping somebody may be able to shed some light on the problems I am
having with my 15 AL PB. I am running OS 10.3.7 with 512 MB RAM.
It started with just Entourage quitting repeatedly last week but in the last
couple of days, it has become progressively worse to the point whereby the
On 18 Jan 2005, at 02:15, Aase Marit Waage wrote:
Changing to English as second, then Swedish and Danish (which I can
read) as third and fourth, was the first thing I did. I thought I had
logged out and back in, but to be sure, I first double checked the
language preference panel, and logged
From: Aase Marit Waage [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was me and not David who was thinking of repainting an AlBook,
but that's by the by...
While you are at it, you also have the chance to get a unique PB, why not
go for a different color? How about
shiny bright red?
That's my point precisely, a different
At 04:37 PM -0500 01/16/2005, Anne Judge wrote:
On Jan 16, 2005, at 12:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After paying to have the ADB repaired *TWICE* in our Lombard
Wow, wonder what they were really doing for that money? Lombard
didn't have ADB - it was the first powerbook with USB (but still had
Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whenever I'd plug or unplug my Kensington trackball all ADB
communication would cease or at best the trackball behaved as if it
was only taking your motion as a suggestion where I might be nice to
go... but maybe it would just jump to the bottom left corner instead.
Fellow listers,
Looks like I might be aquiring a Wallstreet sans a/c adapter..
Seeing a few on ebay, I started to wonder if there is an aftermarket
yo-yo adapter for these? And if so where would I get one?
-tia
-nathan
--
G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and...
Small Dog
I just purchases the Canon i6000 bought 149. from best buy; it has
individual ink cartridges. I purchases this for my photo printing...tho the
color is sometimes very heavy, dark and red. I admit I am not really savvy
and could use the poor man's quick start for excellent photos.
Kristina
Hello from chilly -12 Lake Michigan area,
I have spent the last week upgrading from 8.6 to 9.1 on my G3 beige (does
this machine have a nicer name...like my Lombard?) and the same on the PB.
Both machines lock up...not so much the beige as the PB which won't shut
down properly. It gives a
Hi Ben,
Thanks a lot for your advice!!! I am going to forward it to work, I
am taking my iBook with me tomorrow to do things there, borrowing my
boss' external HDD.
I actually bought an external HDD myself, a Freecom Classic 80GB one.
My boss told me that I could just buy any USB HDD, and
Actually, you can change user short names, but you have to let someone
do it who really knows what they're doing. The tech guy at my school
did it for me when I bought my used Pismo.
On Jan 17, 2005, at 10:15 AM, Aase Marit Waage wrote:
Hi Ben,
The Password field in the accounts preferences
I have OS 9.1 on my Wall Street (now a G4/500) and
use Netscape v4.79 for e-mail and some browsing,
reserving IE 5.1.7 for most browsing.
Will installing MRJ 2.2.5 improve anything for me?
I'm a bit reluctant in case the installer sprays files all
over my HD and I have problems
It just dawned on me, in reading about digital video hardware
requirements, that I don't know the speed of my AlBook's HD. How do I
find out from my computer? I pasted into Google the Hitachi model
number that I found in System Profiler, and found that its speed is
5400. How would I have
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, w miller wrote:
I'm rearranging furniture and realize that wireless printing would be
desirable. I have a desktop G4 (Yikes) and a Powerbook (G3 Lombard). The
printer is an Epson SP960. There's a Linksys ethernet wireless router. I'm
running 9.2.2 on the PB and 10.3 on
Hi Nancy,
Thanks a lot! I don`t know if I have anybody who can do that. My best
bet is probably just
to start over... We`ll just have to transfer all the music, I just
can`t lose 35 Gigs of music...
One big thing just happened though... I am now typing on my new
iBook... Got it set up in a
--- Timothy Domst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whenever you use a browser you need a DNS address,
My suspicion is that you didn't put
one in there;
On Jan 16, 2005, at 9:09 PM, PETE wrote:
Hi listers,
I need your help
I noticed that my road worrior, powerbook
g3/300/384/OS
From: Aase Marit Waage [EMAIL PROTECTED]
He was thinking of painting the dented/scratched Titanium
Power Book, right (called it Al(uminum)Book)?
TiBook = Titanium (1st generation G4 PowerBooks)
AlBook = Aluminium (2nd gen G4 PB)
--
The iBook was perfect while the PB wasn't?
Yes, it's
From: Dan K [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FYI, AlBooks aren't painted (at least not the Al panels), they're
anodized (a hard layer of aluminum oxide.) To refinish...
I was talking of a serious custom job!
Welcome to Pimp my Mac ;o)
Larry
_
From: Aase Marit Waage [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ooops, sorry about the name mix-up, Larry!!!
NP :o)
---
I would be really tempted to make a custom PB if I first had to paint it.
I think bright shiny red would be awesome on one of those... but of course,
color is a matter of taste.
I was actually
From: Amber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you can wait, buy an iBook that includes Tiger
+ for the iBook
---
You don't go into great detail regarding what you
would be using this computer for
Mixed stuff, main Mac, but the reason for switching
from MDD 2x1GHz to 12 is mobility, so that I can sit
anywhere
At 02:48 PM -0600 01/17/2005, Claire Hart wrote:
It just dawned on me, in reading about digital video hardware
requirements, that I don't know the speed of my AlBook's HD. How do
I find out from my computer? I pasted into Google the Hitachi model
number that I found in System Profiler, and
Well, I put it off a day or two to give them a bit more time, called
in, and apparently my iBook is being a problem child. They replaced
the logicboard, still didn't work right, so they replaced a cable
(didn't specify which one, most likely the HD cable), and when they
booted it up there
On Monday, January 17, 2005, at 01:48 PM, Claire Hart wrote:
I pasted into Google the Hitachi model number that I found in System
Profiler, and found that its speed is 5400. How would I have been
able to find it on my computer?
By firing up a brower, going to Google and pasting in the model
From: Aase Marit Waage [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ooops, sorry about the name mix-up, Larry!!!
NP :o)
---
I would be really tempted to make a custom PB if I first had to paint it.
I think bright shiny red would be awesome on one of those... but of course,
color is a matter of taste.
I was
Hi Tim:
At 10:22 AM + 1/13/05, Tim Hodgson wrote:
My Pismo's battery life is now zero, so I'm in the market. Although I'm
in the UK, the most promising deals I've found so far are the high-
capacity (6600mAh and 7200mAh) NewerTech batteries sold by OWC in the
US. Even after shipping and tax
At 4:25 PM -0600 1/17/05, Brian Rule wrote:
Well, I put it off a day or two to give them a bit more time, called
in, and apparently my iBook is being a problem child. They replaced
the logicboard, still didn't work right, so they replaced a cable
(didn't specify which one, most likely the HD
Well, I'm running 10.3.7 on all of my Macs and have the Airport Extreme Base
Station and Airport Express to boost the signal to the back of the house. I
have USB printers on each and it is very effortless to print to whichever
printer is closer.
The original poster stated that he was running a G4
On 1/17/05 10:01 AM, Ben Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Password field in the accounts preferences pane *always* displays
the same number of dots, regardless of password length or whether
there's one there or not. It's an added security measure.
You can't really change the account to
Hey Ben, that's somebody else's music! What you are suggesting is
tantamount to theft. Aase, put your OWN music in iTunes, the stuff that is
there now is NOT YOURS!
For that matter, any software the previous owner left on it is NOT yours
unless he gave you the install CD's and licenses.
GUYS!
Which, I point out again, isn't yours.
Tim
On 1/17/05 4:10 PM, Aase Marit Waage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We`ll just have to transfer all the music, I just
can`t lose 35 Gigs of music...
--
Exterminate all rational thought.
--
G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and...
It's a new year. Let's not go down that what's-illegal-what's-legal road again.
At 7:32 PM -0500 1/17/05, Tim Collier wrote:
Hey Ben, that's somebody else's music! What you are suggesting is
tantamount to theft. Aase, put your OWN music in iTunes, the stuff that is
there now is NOT YOURS!
For
Peter, read your own sig file and rethink that comment.
Tim
On 1/17/05 7:49 PM, Peter Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's a new year. Let's not go down that what's-illegal-what's-legal road
again.
At 7:32 PM -0500 1/17/05, Tim Collier wrote:
Hey Ben, that's somebody else's music!
Perhaps I should have specified from within System Preferences. If
you want to give him instructions for screwing around with NetInfo, be
my guest ;-)
OS X doesn't force you to use a password. My account is the only one on
this iBook, and I can remove my password completely just fine. It's a
The original poster was asking for a solution to a technical issue,
_not_ for moral guidance. There are situations where doing what he
wants to do is legal, and situations where it isn't. Since we don't
have enough information to determine which situation he's in, it seems
prudent to let him
Aase--FWIW, the jumpiness of the trackpad on my ibook is something
I'm still not used to, especially compared to my Pismo. I've fiddled
with the settings on it and it doesn't seem to help, so I guess it's
just something I'm stuck with. Enjoy your new 'book!
On Jan 17, 2005, at 4:10 PM, Aase
We bought an Airport Extreme, and I did firmware updates and
configuration, following all the prompts, from my AlBook. We are also
trying to get my son's Windows laptop to find the Airport Extreme base,
but it's not finding it. He has downloaded Airport for Windows 4.1 and
installed it.
From: Ben Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ORIGINAL SUBJECT: Re: Questions: OS Upgrades, browser/Mail/News choice
You can't really change the account to your name, at least not fully --
short user names cannot be changed once set.
I found out about that when trying to change defaultuser to
something more
From: Dan K [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whenever I'd plug or unplug my Kensington trackball all ADB
communication would cease...
Mac OS doesn't know how to deal with hotswapped ADB devices. To use
a newly added device you have to manually reset the ADB bus.
No -- the presence of the defaultuser account, while annoying, will
not cause any problems. All you need to do to get rid of a user is to
open System PreferencesAccounts, select the user, and press the -
button at the bottom of the dialog.
Apple has a document on transferring data from one
DVD-RW works fine for recording data but iDVD used to reject them. I read
some hints on how to get iDVD to accept them but never tried it (look at
http://www.macosxhints.com/ ) and I seem to recall someone claiming the
problem no longer exists but I wouldn't swear to that.
Hmmm, I bought some
Acer do a Ferrari laptop in Ferrari Red (non metallic) which does look
great. - complete with prancing horse.
Stuart.
BTW, Did anybody else notice that Mr Dithers uses a Powerbook?
On Jan 18, 2005, at 6:47 AM, G-Books wrote:
I would be really tempted to make a custom PB if I first had to
paint
On Jan 17, 2005, at 4:10 PM, Aase Marit Waage wrote:
One big thing just happened though... I am now typing on my new
iBook... Got it set up in a flash... I didn`t get it to work because
of a little, super silly mistake! That is how it often is, I think, I
just assume that it is much more
on 17/01/05 21:51, Claire Hart at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We bought an Airport Extreme, and I did firmware updates and
configuration, following all the prompts, from my AlBook. We are also
trying to get my son's Windows laptop to find the Airport Extreme base,
but it's not finding it. He
We bought an Airport Extreme, and I did firmware updates and
configuration, following all the prompts, from my AlBook. We are also
trying to get my son's Windows laptop to find the Airport Extreme
base, but it's not finding it. He has downloaded Airport for Windows
4.1 and installed it.
Thinking I need a new power adaptor, but thought I'd consult the more
experienced on this list first ;-)
Model: A1021 (65W) for TiBk 867
Symptoms:
1. Battery status does not show charging
2. Ring-light does not go on
3. Same is true regardless of using simply the adaptor or with the AC cord
4.
I must disagree with this advice. Very tightly will probably see a
few daughtercards cracked. There is no 'snap' in replacing the
heatsink, like there is when replacing the daughtercard, as you snap
the connector.
As I see it, the best way to reinstall the heat sink is;
Firstly, clean both
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